Amelungsburg

The Amelungsburg is a former ringfort that is located on the Amelungsberg hill on the Süntel ridge in the district of Hameln-Pyrmont in the German state of Lower Saxony.

Photo: AxelHH, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Burg Roden and Langenfelder Wasserfall.

Burg Roden

Photo: AxelHH, CC BY 3.0.

Burg Roden is situated 1¼ km west of Amelungsburg.

Langenfelder Wasserfall

Waterfall

Langenfelder Wasserfall

Photo: Misburg3014, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Langenfelder Wasserfall is a waterfall, which is situated 2 km northeast of Amelungsburg.

Hohenstein

Peak

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Hohenstein is a peak, which is situated 3 km east of Amelungsburg.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Calenberg Uplands and Bensen.

Calenberg Uplands

Locality

The Calenberg Uplands are a landscape unit in the Weser-Leine Uplands in Lower Saxony, Germany. They border on the Calenberg Land to the north and merge into the Weser Uplands in the west and the Leine Uplands in the east. Calenberg Uplands is situated 3½ km northeast of Amelungsburg.

Bensen

Village

Photo: Gerhard Elsner, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bensen is a village, which is situated 5 km southeast of Amelungsburg.

Schaumburg (Rinteln)

Village

Schaumburg (Rinteln)

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Schaumburg (Rinteln) is a village, which is situated 5 km west of Amelungsburg.

Amelungsburg

Type: Archaeological site
Description: ringfort in Lower Saxony, Germany
Categories: rocca, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Hessisch Oldendorf, Hameln-Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

52.19988° or 52° 11′ 60″ north

Longitude

9.26998° or 9° 16′ 12″ east

Open location code

9F4F57X9+XX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7057080417

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

Wikidata ID

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In Other Languages

From German to Hausa—“Amelungsburg” goes by many names.

German: “Amelungsburg (Süntel)”
German: “Amelungsburg”
Hausa: “Amelungsburg (Süntel)”
Hausa: “Amelungsburg”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Amelungsberg and Baumgartenberg.

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